Offshore Outsourcing and Non-production Workers: Firm-level Relationships Disaggregated by Skills and Suppliers

摘要

This paper has empirically investigated how the relation between offshoring and non-production workers changes when we distinguish skilled and unskilled non-production workers and when we distinguish different types of offshore suppliers. By disaggregatingrnnon-production workers, this paper has found that the share of skilled non-production workers is significantly high in offshoring firms but that of unskilled non-production workers is not. This suggests that offshoring is related with employment composition shift towards high skills within non-production workers. This paper has also found that the employment share of workers for overseas management is significantly high in FDI firms and firms engaged in outsourcing to foreign suppliers, but not in Japanese firms offshoring to Japanese suppliers.